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Alumni Gold Event

A superb friendship binds this group of Champittet Alumni, who went to visit the Hôtel des Ventes, in Geneva, on June 24.

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The arrival of the chicks

If you ask the students of Collège Champittet in Nyon what was the most striking memory of the month of May, many will certainly answer the birth of the little chicks.

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The educational vegetable garden

From cucumber seeds to a greenhouse of several square metres, the vegetable garden allows children to discover the magic of growing vegetables.

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La maîtrise de la langue au service de la pensée libre

De plus, si la langue évolue constamment sous l’effet des pratiques collectives - ou si elle est parfois artificiellement mue par les fantaisies de l’Académie française...- elle ne sollicite pas, du moins pas tout de suite, l’originalité individuelle des élèves et leur créativité propre : son étude perd ainsi tout attrait et se résume à un acte de mémorisation qui n’a plus bonne presse dans la pédagogie contemporaine.

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Progress in Sustainable Development - PET recycling

The organisation PET-Recycling Switzerland certified that Collège Champittet recycled 258 kg of PET beverage bottles in 2019, saving approximately 774 kg of greenhouse gases.

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Speed is everything

A study by Dr Glenn Wilson at London’s Institute of Psychiatry in 2005 concluded that constant interruptions can have a similar effect to missing sleep. We have all heard the various estimates of so called ‘concentration’.

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L’inspiration au-delà de l’information

Prendre conscience qu'il est une partie d'un tout immense est la mission ultime de l'éducation.

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Breaking the cycle of shame

As a school, we can move away from a fear of failure, by opening ourselves up and being vulnerable.

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A very positive return!

The return of the school year on the 11th or 12th May took place in the joy of reunion and learning about the new health measures put in place.

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Gradual return to school

What a special moment we are living in with the appearance of this virus! Suddenly, while we had many projects in progress, including a meeting with our alumni on Saturday May 16th, Covid 19 appeared and "confined" us to our houses and apartments!

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Portrait of Mark Brennan - Dean 9-10th HarmoS and 9-13 FLE

Having grown up in the beautiful Blue Mountains of N.S.W. Australia, I spent an amazing amount of time running about in the bush (which is Australian for outdoors!). I learned life lessons about the value of nature and its importance in human health.

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It is a brave new world: reopening our doors to students and boarders

In many ways, the pandemic has transformed our work, we have had to reinvent ourselves as teachers and educators, multitasking more than ever before, providing support over screens and messages and now helping our students and boarders negotiate a brave new world that none of us could have thought of just a few months ago...

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The Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2020- a brave new world?

Last year, 551 universities from 80 countries across 17 regions and 6 continents were asked to submit data for the ranking and 462 were ranked. This year a further 291 universities have signed up to measure their own performance with regards to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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The Happiness Pill

To lead a meaningful life is to lead a creative life; they are not add-ons, the conditions for its development need to be integrated fully into every aspect of our working lives.

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Unfailing motivation

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Leading a boarding community through a pandemic : an unknown challenge

These have been truly testing times for communities and countries all over the world. Many of us will have never had to face the fallout of a global pandemic, and as such it has put undue pressure on schools all over the world, particularly those with boarding communities.